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Read News Release 09-04 NASA Dryden's NF-15B tail number 837's canards are tilted down during a pre-flight control check prior to a Lancets project flight. NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center accomplished a series of flight tests to measure shock waves generated by an F-15 jet in support of the Lift and Nozzle Change Effects on Tail Shock, or Lancets, project. The research flights, flown December 2008 through January 2009, were aimed at providing data to help validate computer models that...
Topics: F-15B #837 Lancets Project, Where -- Dryden Flight Research Center (DFRC)
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/multimedia/imagegallery/F-15B_837/ED09-0008-25.html
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E-USAF-X-15 On 15 November 1967, Ship #3 was launched over Delamar Lake, Nevada with Maj. Michael J. Adams at the controls. The vehicle soon reached a speed of Mach 5.2, and a peak altitude of 266,000 feet. During the climb, an electrical disturbance degraded the aircraft's controllability. Ship #3 began a slow drift in heading, which soon became a spin. Adams radioed that the X-15 ''seems squirrelly'' and then said ''I'm in a spin.''Through some combination of pilot technique and basic...
Topics: What -- Mercury, What -- Gemini, What -- Space Shuttle Orbiter, Where -- Nevada, Where --...
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/multimedia/imagegallery/X-15/E-USAF-X-15.html
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Overhead view of the Sheet Metal Shop
Topic: Overhead view of the Sheet Metal Shop
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/capabilities/CodeZ/facilities/fabrication_shop/fabshop003.html
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ECN-792 Viewed from the front the #1 XB-70A 62-0001 is shown climbing out during take-off. Most flights were scheduled during the morning hours to take advantage of the cooler ambient air temperatures for improved propulsion efficiencies. The wing tips are extended straight out to provide a maximum lifting wing surface.The XB-70A, capable of flying three times the speed of sound, was the world's largest experimental aircraft in the 1960s. Two XB-70A aircraft were built. Ship #1 was flown by...
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/multimedia/imagegallery/XB-70/ECN-792.html
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E56-02456 McDonnell F-101 Voodoo August 10, 1956 NASA Photo & F-101 Project Description
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/multimedia/imagegallery/F-101/E56-02456.html
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EC04-0113-171 The Dryden Aerospike Rocket Test provided the first known data from a solid-fueled aerospike rocket in flight. The test took place March 30 and 31, 2004, at the King Ranch launch site at the Pecos County Aerospace Development Corporation Flight Test Range in Fort Stockton, Texas. March 30, 2004 NASA Photo / Steve Thomas Aerospike Rocket Project Description
Topic: Where -- Texas
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/multimedia/imagegallery/Aerospike_Rocket/EC04-0113-171.html
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ED08-0024-2Bradley C. Flick portrait January 14, 2008 NASA Photo / Dryden People Description
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/multimedia/imagegallery/People/ED08-0024-2.html
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ED11-0256-65 Dryden model shop technician Leslie Monforton, acting as the DROID small UAV research aircraft’s safety pilot, communicates with the team in the ground control station van during engine run-up. August 17, 2011 (NASA / Tom Tschida)
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/multimedia/imagegallery/DROID/ED11-0256-65.html
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E-27810T his T-37 was used by the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California as a chase aircraft for many research flights. It was also used as a probe aircraft wake vortices for studies in support of the national effort to reduce the hazards associated with the trailed wake vortices of large aircraft. The effectiveness of using selected combinations of flap and spoiler positions on large aircraft to alleviate these air disturbances was evaluated by measuring the upsets imposed on...
Topics: Where -- Dryden Flight Research Center DFRC, Where -- California
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/multimedia/imagegallery/T-37/E-27810.html
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The Digital Fly-By-Wire project pioneered the use of an electronic flight-control system coupled with a digital computer to replace conventional mechanical flight controls. A modified F-8 DFBW Crusader was the first to be used to validate the concept in 1972 at the Flight Research Center (now Dryden). It was the forerunner of the fly-by-wire flight control systems now used on the space shuttles and on today's military and civil aircraft to make them safer, more maneuverable and more efficient....
Topics: F-8 Digital Fly-By-Wire, What -- WIRE, What -- Space Shuttle Orbiter, What -- Enterprise
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/news/X-Press/50th_anniversary/top_20_projects/digital_fly_by_wire.html
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Boeing Phantom Works has partnered with NASA and the Air Force Research Laboratory to study the structural, aerodynamic and operational advantages of the 'Blended Wing Body' advanced aircraft concept, a cross between a conventional plane and a flying wing design. The Air Force has designated the prototype the X-48B based on its interest in the design's potential as a multi-role, long-range, high-capacity military transport aircraft. October 24, 2006 NASA / Tony Landis ED06-0198-06
Topic: X-48B
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/multimedia/imagegallery/X-48B/X-48B.html
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ED08-0253-01Mark C. Dickers on September 30, 2008 NASA Photo / Tony Landis Dryden People Description
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/multimedia/imagegallery/People/ED08-0253-01.html
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EC79-11484 The KC-135 with the winglets in flight over the San Gabriel mountains, south of Edwards AFB. While wind tunnel tests suggested that winglets - developed by NASA Langley's Richard Whitcomb - would significantly reduce drag, flight research proved their usefulness. Winglets were installed on an Air Force KC-135 and research flights were made in 1979 and 1980. These showed drag in flight was reduced by as much as 7 percent. Winglets soon appeared on production aircraft, although these...
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/multimedia/imagegallery/KC-135/EC79-11484.html
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EC98-44803-98 The Centurion remotely piloted flying wing in flight during an initial series of low-altitude, battery-powered test flights in late 1998 at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California. The special Mate-DeMate structure used by NASA to attach Space Shuttle orbiters to the back of modified Boeing 747s for transport to other locations can be seen in the background of this photo. Nov 1998 NASA Photo / Tom Tschida Centurion Project Description
Topics: What -- Space Shuttle Orbiter, Where -- Dryden Flight Research Center DFRC, Where -- California
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/multimedia/imagegallery/Centurion/EC98-44803-98.html
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The swirling circulation pattern of tropical storm Frank off the southwestern coast of Baja California was captured by Ames Research Center's HDVis camera mounted on the aft fuselage of NASA's Global Hawk unmanned research aircraft Aug. 28. August 28, 2010 NASA/NOAA image
Topics: What -- Global Hawk, Where -- California, Where -- Ames Research Center (ARC)
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/478656main_GRIP_GH_Frank_swirl_full.jpg
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ED07-0094-13 Air Force rescue team members load the volunteer ''injured astronaut'' on a stretcher into a Blackhawk helicopter for evacuation to a hospital during the exercise. USAF photo # 070505-F-1287F-166 May 5, 2007 NASA Photo / Jet Fabara USAF
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/multimedia/imagegallery/STS-Misc/ED07-0094-13.html
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ED09-0302-08 Retired long-time NASA Dryden Flight Research Center employee Betty Love was among four individuals honored as 2009 Eagles by the Flight Test Historical Foundation during the group's annual Gathering of Eagles event Oct. 16. The foundation supports operation and improvements to the Air Force Flight Test Center Museum at Edwards Air Force Base. October 16, 2009 NASA Photo / Tony Landis Read Feature Story
Topics: Where -- Dryden Flight Research Center DFRC, Where -- Edwards Air Force Base
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/multimedia/imagegallery/People/ED09-0302-08.html
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LkIsabella_AMS-scan This 3-D illustration shows the real-time, mid-mission flight track of NASA's Ikhana remotely piloted aircraft over Southern California's Lake Isabella on Nov. 19, 2009. The green swath emanating from Ikhana depicts the actual scanning profile of NASA's Autonomous Modular Scanner over the mountain terrain. The sensor, carried in a pod under the aircraft's wing, operates like a digital camera with specialized filters to detect light energy at visible, infrared and thermal...
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EC96-43485-3 On Wednesday, April 24, 1996, the F-15 Advanced Control Technology for Integrated Vehicles (ACTIVE) aircraft achieved its first supersonic yaw vectoring flight at Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California. ACTIVE is a joint NASA, U.S. Air Force, McDonnell Douglas Aerospace (MDA) and Pratt & Whitney (P&W) program. The team will assess performance and technology benefits during flight test operations. We hope to set some more records before we're through,'' stated...
Topics: Where -- Dryden Flight Research Center (DFRC), Where -- California, Where -- Douglas
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/multimedia/imagegallery/F-15ACTIVE/EC96-43485-3.html
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E-3213 North American F-100A Super Sabre on the ramp near the NACA High-Speed Flight Station in 1957. Some airplane characteristics are: Fuselage length, feet 45.64 Wing span, feet Original wing 36.58 Extended wing 38.58 Power Plant: Pratt & Whitney J57-P7 turbojet engine with afterburner; Airplane weight, pounds: Basic (without fuel, oil, water, pilot) 19,662 1957 NASA Photo / & F-100 Project Description
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/multimedia/imagegallery/F-100/E-3213.html
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ED07-0137-32 NASA's 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft with the Space Shuttle Atlantis on top lifts off to begin its ferry flight back to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA Photo / Carla Thomas July 1, 2007
Topics: What -- Space Shuttle Orbiter, What -- Atlantis, What -- STS-117, Where -- Kennedy Space Center...
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/multimedia/imagegallery/Shuttle/ED07-0137-32.html
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EC04-0010-02 One of many microphones arrayed under the path of the F-5E SSBE Shaped Sonic Boom Experiment aircraft to record sonic booms.The SSBE Shaped Sonic Boom Experiment was formerly known as the Shaped Sonic Boom Demonstration, or SSBD, and is part of DARPA's Quiet Supersonic Platform QSP program. On August 27, 2003, the F-5E SSBD aircraft demonstrated a method to reduce the intensity of sonic booms. January 13, 2004 NASA Photo / Tony Landis
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/multimedia/imagegallery/SSBD/EC04-0010-02.html
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ED11-0150-037 Superboom Caustic Analysis and Measurement Program NASA Dryden meteorologists Fran Houtas and Scott Wiley prepare to launch a weather balloon next to a SODAR unit. May 2011 NASA Dryden / Tom Tshida
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/multimedia/imagegallery/Sonic_Boom_Suppression/ED11-0150-037.html
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ECN-11648 NASA 991, an F-14 Navy Tomcat designated the F-14 (1X), is seen here in banked flight over the desert on a research flight at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California. The F-14 was used at Dryden between 1979 and 1985 in extensive high-angle-of-attack and spin-control-and-recovery tests. The NASA/Navy program, which included 212 total flights, acheived considerable improvement in the F-14 high-angle-of-attack flying qualities, improved departure and spin resistance,...
Topics: Where -- Dryden Flight Research Center (DFRC), Where -- California
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/multimedia/imagegallery/F-14/ECN-11648.html
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EC76-5271The Northrop Aviation YF-17 technology demonstrator aircraft in flight during a 1976 flight research program at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California.1976 NASA Photo
Topic: Where -- Dryden Flight Research Center DFRC
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/multimedia/imagegallery/YF-17/EC76-5271.html
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E49-005The Bell Aircraft Corporation X-1-2 and two of the NACA pilots that flew the aircraft. The one on the viewer's left is Robert Champine with the other being Herbert Hoover. Champine made a total of 13 flights in the X-1, plus 9 in the D-558-1 and 12 in the D-558-2. Hoover made 14 flights in the X-1. On March 10, 1948, he reached Mach 1.065, becoming the first NACA pilot to fly faster than the speed of sound. Sep 1949 NASA Photo / NASA photo
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/multimedia/imagegallery/X-1/E49-005.html
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EC97-44165-149 A collection of NASA's research aircraft on the ramp at the Dryden Flight Research Center in July 1997: X-31, F-15 ACTIVE, SR-71, F-106, F-16XL Ship #2, X-38, Radio Controlled Mothership and X-36. July 16,1997 NASA Photo / Tony Landis
Topic: Where -- Dryden Flight Research Center DFRC
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/multimedia/imagegallery/X-31/EC97-44165-149.html
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ED08-0275-17Veterans of the X-15 flight research program, most of them now retired, reunited at Dryden on the 40th anniversary of the last X-15 flight on Oct. 24, 1968 for a historical colloquium on the X-15 by noted aerospace historian and author Dennis Jenkins on Oct. 24, 2008. Gathered in front of the replica of X-15 #3 the were from left Johnny Armstrong, Betty Love, Paul Reukauf, Bob Hoey, Dave Stoddard, Dean Webb, Vince Capasso, Bill Dana who flew the last flight, John McTigue and T.D....
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/multimedia/imagegallery/People/ED08-0275-17.html
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E-4875 Paul F. Bikle Paul F. Bikle, was born June 5, 1916, in Wilkensburg, Penn. Formerly technical director of the Air Force Flight Test Center, Edwards AFB, California. Bikle assumed his position as Director of NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards AFB, California, in September, 1959. › Read Full Bio September 16, 1959 NASA Photo
Topics: Who -- Paul F. Bikle, Where -- California, Where -- Dryden Flight Research Center DFRC
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/multimedia/imagegallery/Directors/E-4875.html
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Long-time NASA Dryden research pilot and former astronaut C. Gordon Fullerton capped an almost 50-year flying career, including more than 38 years with NASA, with a final flight in a NASA F/A-18 on Dec. 21, 2007. Fullerton and Dryden research pilot Jim Smolka flew a 90-minute pilot proficiency formation aerobatics flight with another Dryden F/A-18 and a Dryden T-38 before concluding with two low-level formation flyovers of Dryden before landing. Fullerton was honored with a water-cannon spray...
Topics: Dryden research pilot Gordon Fullerton on the Dryden ramp after his final flight., Where -- Edwards...
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/multimedia/imagegallery/F-18/ED07-0294-27.html
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ECN-14273 The HiMAT (Highly Maneuverable Aircraft Technology) subscale research vehicle, seen here during a research flight, was flown by the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California, from mid 1979 to January 1983. The aircraft demonstrated advanced fighter technologies that have been used in the development of many modern high performance military aircraft. HiMAT Project Description December 30, 1980 NASA photo
Topics: Where -- Dryden Flight Research Center (DFRC), Where -- California
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/multimedia/imagegallery/Hi MAT/ECN-14273.html
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EC90-357-4 This look-down view of NASA's two X-29 research aircraft shows the aircraft lit by the golden rays of early morning on Rogers Dry Lake, adjacent to NASA's Ames-Dryden Flight Research Facility later Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California. Aircraft No. 1 flew from 1984 to 1988 and investigated general handling qualities, performance, and systems integration. The second aircraft flew from 1989 until 1992 in a program to investigate high angle-of-attack characteristics. Angle...
Topics: Where -- Dryden Flight Research Center DFRC, Where -- California
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/multimedia/imagegallery/X-29/EC90-357-4.html
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Women served as the first computers for the Flight Research Center. Hired because of their math degrees or teaching background, they took raw data from the aircraft--beginning with film traces--and generated pages and pages of numbers, then graphed them for the engineers to use. Over the next 15 years they were gradually replaced with electronic computers. NASA Photo E49-0212
Topic: Where -- Dryden Flight Research Center (DFRC)
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/250580main_E49-0212_full.jpg
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E-1004 Boeing B-47A Stratojet NACA 150 landing at Edwards Air Force Base, California. The drag chute was used on landings to help brake the airplane's speed. The B-47A fuselage was 106 feet 11 inches in length. The average gross weight was 115,000 pounds. Accommodations were for two pilots and a navigator with the aircraft being instrumented for aeroelasticity studies. August 12, 1953 NASA Photo / B-47A Project Description
Topics: Where -- Edwards Air Force Base, Where -- California
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/multimedia/imagegallery/B-47/E-1004.html
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EC87-0100-4 NASA 834, an F-14 Navy Tomcat, seen here in flight, was used at Dryden in 1986 and 1987 in a program known as the Variable-Sweep Transition Flight Experiment (VSTFE). This program explored laminar flow on variable sweep aircraft at high subsonic speeds. An F-14 aircraft was chosen as the carrier vehicle for the VSTFE program primarily because of its variable-sweep capability, Mach and Reynolds number capability, availability, and favorable wing pressure distribution. The variable...
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/multimedia/imagegallery/F-14/EC87-0100-4.html
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ECN-2301 The Hyper III was a low-cost test vehicle for an advanced lifting-body shape. Like the earlier M2-F1, it was a ''homebuilt'' research aircraft, i.e., built at the Flight Research Center (FRC), later redesignated the Dryden Flight Research Center. It had a steel-tube frame covered with Dacron, a fiberglass nose, sheet aluminum fins, and a wing from an HP-11 sailplane. Construction was by volunteers at the FRC. Although the Hyper III was to be flown remotely in its initial tests, it was...
Topic: Where -- Dryden Flight Research Center (DFRC)
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/multimedia/imagegallery/HyperIII/ECN-2301.html
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EC01-0070-1 The X-40A immediately after release from its harness suspended from a helicopter 15,000 feet above NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, California, on March 14, 2001. The unpiloted X-40 is a risk-reduction vehicle for the X-37, which is intended to be a reusable space vehicle. NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala, manages the X-37 project. At Dryden, the X-40A will undergo a series of ground and air tests to reduce possible risks to the...
Topics: Where -- Dryden Flight Research Center DFRC, Where -- Edwards Air Force Base, Where -- California,...
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/multimedia/imagegallery/X-40A/EC01-0070-1.html
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EC01-0148-21 X-40A Free Flight #5. The unpowered X-40A, an 85 percent scale risk reduction version of the proposed X-37, proved the capability of an autonomous flight control and landing system in a series of glide flights at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center in California. NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, manages the X-37 project. At Dryden, the X-40A underwent a series of ground and air tests to reduce possible risks to the larger X-37, including drop tests from...
Topics: Where -- Dryden Flight Research Center DFRC, Where -- California, Where -- Marshall Space Flight...
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/multimedia/imagegallery/X-40A/EC01-0148-21.html
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E-960In the center foreground of this 1953 hanger photo is the YF-84A (NACA 134/Air Force 45-59490) used for vortex generator research. It arrived on November 28, 1949, and departed on April 21, 1954. Beside it is the third D-558-1 aircraft (NACA 142/Navy 37972). This aircraft was used for a total of 78 transonic research flights from April 1949 to June 1954. It replaced the second D-558-1, lost in the crash which killed Howard Lilly. Just visible on the left edge is the nose of the first...
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/multimedia/imagegallery/YRF-84F/E-960.html
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E-959 The aircraft in this 1953 photo of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) hangar at South Base of Edwards Air Force Base showed the wide range of research activities being undertaken. On the left side of the hanger are the three D-558-2 research aircraft. These were designed to test swept wings at supersonic speeds approaching Mach 2. The front D-558-2 is the third built (NACA 145/Navy 37975). It has been modified with a leading-edge chord extension. This was one of a...
Topics: Where -- Edwards Air Force Base, Where -- Douglas
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/multimedia/imagegallery/Fleet-1950s/E-959.html
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ED09-0102-272 The Orion flight test crew module that will be used for the Orion Launch Abort System Pad Abort 1 flight test is shown with its adapter cone that attaches the abort system«És rocket motor to the module. Instrumentation installation and integration was conducted at NASA«És Dryden Flight Research Center over an 18-month period in 2008 and 2009 in preparation for the pad abort flight test. May 6, 2009 NASA Photo / Tony Landis
Topics: What -- Orion, Where -- Dryden Flight Research Center (DFRC)
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/multimedia/ima gegallery/Orion/ED09-0102-272.html
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ECN-3931 This photograph shows a modified General Dynamics TACT/F-111A Aardvaark with supercritical wings installed. The aircraft, with flaps and landing gear down, is in a decending turn over Rogers Dry Lakebed at Edwards Air Force Base.Starting in 1971 the NASA Flight Research Center and the Air Force undertook a major research and flight testing program, using F-111A (#63-9778), which would span almost 20 years before completion. Intense interest over the results coming from the NASA F-8...
Topic: Where -- Edwards Air Force Base
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/multimedia/imagegallery/F-111TACT/ECN-3931.html
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ED06-0202-001One of NASA's two modified Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft is silhouetted against the morning sky at sunrise on the ramp at Edwards Air Force Base. October 28, 2006 NASA Photo / Tony Landis SCA Project Description
Topic: Where -- Edwards Air Force Base
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/multimedia/imagegallery/SCA/ED06-0202-001.html
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E54-1228 This NACA High-Speed Flight Station photograph shows a side-view of the X-3 Stiletto research aircraft on the ramp at Edwards Air Force Base in 1954. The X-3 Stiletto was a single-place jet aircraft with a slender fuselage and a long tapered nose, manufactured by the Douglas Aircraft Company. The X-3's primary mission was to investigate the design features of an aircraft suitable for sustained supersonic speeds, which included the first use of titanium in major airframe components. It...
Topics: Where -- Edwards Air Force Base, Where -- Douglas
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/341359main_E54-1228_full.jpg
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ED11-0222-20 Mounted in a box on the floor of NASA's B200 King Air, the Autonomous Modular Scanner peers out through an aperture in the bottom of the aircraft. The scanner operates like a digital camera with special filters to detect light energy at visible, infrared and thermal wavelengths as it peers through smoke and haze to detect active hot spots in wildfires. NASA / Tony Landis July 27, 2011
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/multimedia/imagegallery/KingAir/ED11-0222-20.html
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ED06-0217-06NASA Dryden aircraft and avionics technicians, from left, Bryan Hookland, Art Cope, Herman Rijfkogel and Jonathan Richards install the nose cone on a Phoenix missile prior to a fit check on the center's F-15B research aircraft. November 13, 2006 NASA Photo / Tom Tschida
Topic: What -- Phoenix
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/multimedia/imagegallery/Phoenix/ED06-0217-06.html
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EC03-0210-1 Northrop-Grumman Corporation's modified U.S. Navy F-5E Shaped Sonic Boom Demonstration SSBD aircraft. August 2, 2003 NASA Photo / Carla Thomas Read SSBD Project Description
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/multimedia/imagegallery/SSBD/EC03-0210-1.html
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EC77-6988This photo shows the F-8 Digital-Fly-By Wire aircraft in flight. The project involving this aircraft contributed significantly to the flight control system on the space shuttles by testing and getting the bugs out of the IBM AP-101 used on the shuttles and by helping the Dryden Flight Research Center to develop a pilot-induced oscillation PIO suppression filter that reduced the likelihood of pilots overcontrolling the shuttles on landings and thereby creating excursions from the...
Topics: What -- WIRE, What -- Space Shuttle Orbiter, Where -- Dryden Flight Research Center DFRC
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/multimedia/imagegallery/F-8DFBW/EC77-6988.html
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EC90-357-7This front view of the X-29 research aircraft shows the plane lit by a full moon at the edge of day on Rogers Dry Lake, adjacent to NASA's Ames-Dryden Flight Research Facility later redesignated the Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California. The X-29, featuring one of the most unusual aircraft designs in aviation history, was flown as a technology demonstrator. The concepts and technologies explored were the use of advanced composites in aircraft construction; variable-camber...
Topics: What -- Moon, What -- WIRE, Where -- Dryden Flight Research Center DFRC, Where -- California
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/multimedia/imagegallery/X-29/EC90-357-7.html
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EC01-0145-3CH-47 and X-40A before Free flight 4A May 5, 2001 NASA Photo / Tony Landis
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/multimedia/imagegallery/X-40A/EC01-0145-3.html
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ECN-2359 The wingless, lifting body aircraft sitting on Rogers Dry Lake at what is now NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California, from left to right are the X-24A, M2-F3 and the HL-10. The lifting body aircraft studied the feasibility of maneuvering and landing an aerodynamic craft designed for reentry from space. These lifting bodies were air launched by a B-52 mother ship, then flew powered by their own rocket engines before making an unpowered approach and landing. They...
Topics: What -- Space Shuttle Orbiter, Where -- Dryden Flight Research Center (DFRC), Where -- California
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/363239main_ECN-2359_full.jpg
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Following a successful five-minute, 28-second unpowered second free flight of the Shuttle Approach and Landing Tests on Sept. 13, 1977, a formation of six aircraft, including five T-38s and the specially modified NASA 747 that had carried Enterprise aloft for the test, fly overhead to commemorate the event. Enterprise had been perched on top of the 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft until explosive bolts separated the two aircraft. NASA Photo ECN-8604
Topics: Shuttle Approach and Landing Test, What -- Enterprise
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/news/X-Press/50th_anniversary/special_photo_edition/ECN-8604.html
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EC02-0264-01 The Active Aeroelastic Wing F-18A lifts off on its first checkout flight November 15, 2002, from NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. › Read Project Description November 15, 2002 NASA Photo / Tony Landis
Topics: Where -- Dryden Flight Research Center (DFRC), Where -- Edwards Air Force Base
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/multimedia/imagegallery/AAW/EC02-0264-01.html
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EC04-0113-146 A closeup of one of the Cesaroni Technology, Inc. - constructed aerospike nozzles used in the Dryden Aerospike Rocket Test. March 30, 2004 NASA Photo / Carla Thomas Aerospike Rocket Project Description
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/multimedia/imagegallery/Aerospike_Rocket/EC04-0113-146.html
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NASA Dryden's T-38 Talon trainer jet in flight over the main base complex at Edwards Air Force Base. Formerly at NASA's Langley Research Center, this Northrop T-38 Talon is now used for mission support and pilot proficiency at the Dryden Flight Research Center. May 5, 2006 NASA / photo Jim Ross ED06-0072-2
Topics: Dryden's T-38 Talon Trainer Jet in Flight, Where -- Edwards Air Force Base, Where -- Langley...
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/multimedia/imagegallery/T-38/ED06-0072-2.html
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E55-01799 The Bell Aircraft Corporation X-1A 48-1384 is photographed in July 1955 sitting on Rogers Dry Lake at Edwards Air Force Base, California. This view of the left side of the aircraft shows the change to the X-1A canopy from the X-1s see photo E49-0039 under XS-1 The nose boom carries an angle-of-attack and angle-of-sideslip vane, along with a pitot tube for measuring static and impact pressures. The fuselage length is 35 feet 8 inches, with a wing span of 28 feet. The X-1A was created...
Topics: Who -- Chuck Yeager, Where -- Edwards Air Force Base, Where -- California
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/multimedia/imagegallery/X-1A/E55-01799.html
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EC03-0163-03 Bob Mccall and NASA Dryden Director Kevin Petersen stand by ''Celebrating One Hundred Years of Powered Flight, 1903-2003'', in the artist's studio in Paradise Valley, Arizona. The mural was created to celebrate the achievements of Wilbur and Orville Wright and to commemorate a century of powered flight. Many of the epic flights represented in the painting took place in the skies over NASA Dryden Flight Research Center. An equally important goal of this celebration will be to...
Topics: Who -- Administrator Sean O'Keefe, What -- Dawn, What -- International Space Station (ISS), What --...
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/373247main_EC03-0163-03_full.jpg
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E-16199 The HL-10 was one of five heavyweight lifting-body designs flown at NASA's Flight Research Center (FRC--later Dryden Flight Research Center), Edwards, California, from July 1966 to November 1975 to study and validate the concept of safely maneuvering and landing a low lift-over-drag vehicle designed for reentry from space. Northrop Corporation built the HL-10 and M2-F2, the first two of the fleet of ''heavy'' lifting bodies flown by the NASA Flight Research Center. The contract for...
Topics: What -- Space Shuttle Orbiter, Where -- Dryden Flight Research Center (DFRC), Where -- California,...
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/401171main_E-16199_full_full.jpg
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EC02-0294-4 NASA Dryden's Automated Aerial Refueling (AAR) project evaluated the capability of an F/A-18A aircraft as an in-flight refueling tanker with the objective of developing analytical models for an automated aerial refueling system for unmanned air vehicles. The F/A-18 "tanker" aircraft (No. 847) underwent flight test envelope expansion with an aerodynamic pod containing air-refueling equipment carried beneath the fuselage. The second aircraft (No. 843) flew as the receiver...
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/multimedia/imagegallery/AAR/EC02-0294-4.html
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EC95-43251-2 This McDonnell Douglas MD-11 is taxiing to a position on the flightline at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California, following its completion of the first and second landings ever performed by a transport aircraft under engine power only on Aug. 29, 1995. The milestone flight, with NASA research pilot and former astronaut Gordon Fullerton at the controls, was part of a NASA project to develop a computer-assisted engine control system that enables a pilot to land a...
Topics: Where -- Dryden Flight Research Center DFRC, Where -- Langley Research Center LaRC, Where --...
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/multimedia/imagegallery/MD-11PCA/EC95-43251-2.html
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ED09-0183-28 NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center recently conducted a flight test of an airflow measurement device mounted underneath its F-15B research aircraft in the Rake Airflow Gage Experiment, or RAGE. August 5, 2009 NASA photo / Tony Landis
Topic: Where -- Dryden Flight Research Center (DFRC)
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/news/newsphotos/2009/ED09-0183-28.html
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EC00-0317-41 The third iteration of the X-38, V-131R, glides down under a giant parafoil towards a landing on Rogers Dry Lake near NASA Dryden Flight Research Center during its first free flight Nov. 2, 2000. The X-38 prototypes are intended to perfect technology for a planned Crew Return Vehicle CRV lifeboat to carry a crew to safety in the event of an emergency on the International Space Station. Free-flight tests of X-38 V-131R are evaluating upgraded avionics and control systems and the...
Topics: What -- International Space Station ISS, What -- Space Shuttle Orbiter, Where -- Dryden Flight...
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/multimedia/imagegallery/X-38/EC00-0317-41.html
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NASA's specially modified 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft, or SCA, is positioned under the Space Shuttle Discovery to be attached for their ferry flight to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. After its post-flight servicing and preparation at NASA Dryden in California, Discovery's return flight to Kennedy aboard the 747 will take approximately 2 days, with stops at several intermediate points for refueling. August 18, 2005 NASA / Photo Carla Thomas ED05-0166-30
Topics: 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft is Positioned Under the Shuttle Discovery, What -- Space Shuttle...
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/multimedia/imagegallery/Shuttle/ED05-0166-30.html
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Welding station at DAOF Fabrication Shop. August 29, 2008 NASA Photo / Tom Tschida ED08-0196-06
Topic: DAOF Fabrication Shop
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/daof/daof_fabrication_shop/ED08-0196-06.html
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The X-15 program is widely considered the most successful research aircraft program in U. S. history, leaving a legacy of scientific data and aeronautical firsts that remains unparalleled. Between June 8, 1959, and Oct. 24, 1968, a dozen pilots flew three rocket-powered X-15 research vehicles 199 times. The program contributed to numerous advances in aerospace technology, including those in materials, hypersonic aerodynamics, astronomy and spaceflight. Researchers generated more than 760...
Topics: X-15, Who -- Joseph A. Walker
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/news/X-Press/50th_anniversary/top_20_projects/X-15.html
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EC03-0089-5Scaled Composites' Proteus aircraft with an F/A-18 Hornet and a Beechcraft KingAir from NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center during a low-level flyby at Mojave Airport in Southern California.The unique tandem-wing Proteus was the testbed for a series of UAV collision-avoidance flight demonstrations. An Amphitech 35GHz radar unit installed below Proteus' nose was the primary sensor for the Detect, See and Avoid tests. April 3, 2003 NASA Photo / Tom Tschida Proteus Project Description
Topics: What -- Proteus, Where -- Dryden Flight Research Center DFRC
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/multimedia/imagegallery/Proteus/EC03-0089-5.html
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E62-8143 NASA research pilot Milt Thompson poses in front of an F-104 similar to the one from which he ejected on Dec. 20, 1962. Circa 1962 NASA Photo
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/multimedia/imagegallery/F-104/E62-8143.html
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EC96-43762-2 NASA Dryden Flight Research Center's modified F-16XL conducted testing on laminar flow during an Oct. 1996 research mission over the Grand Canyon. The research involves a delta-winged F-16XL modified with a ''glove'' which is made of titanium. The glove contained more than 10 million holes and had a suction system attached to the lower surface which wass comprised of tubes, valves and a compressor. During research flight the suction systems pulled a small part of the boundary layer...
Topics: Where -- Dryden Flight Research Center (DFRC), Where -- Douglas
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/multimedia/imagegallery/F-16XL2/EC96-43762-2.html
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EC02-0224-3 NASA Dryden F-18 #843 in flight October 1, 2002 NASA Photo / Jim Ross & F-18 Project Description
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/multimedia/imagegallery/F-18Chase/EC02-0224-3.html
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EC01-0145-12X-40A landing after Free Flight 4A May 5, 2001 NASA Photo / Tom Tschida
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/multimedia/imagegallery/X-40A/EC01-0145-12.html
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ED09-0266-09 Disney«És space ranger Buzz Lightyear returned from space on Sept. 11 aboard space shuttle Discovery«És STS-128 mission after 15 months aboard the International Space Station. His time on the orbiting laboratory will be celebrated in a ticker-tape parade together with his space station crewmates and former Apollo 11 moonwalker Buzz Aldrin on Oct. 2 at Walt Disney World in Florida. September 11, 2009 NASA Photo / Tony Landis
Topics: Who -- Buzz Aldrin, What -- Space Shuttle Orbiter, What -- Ranger, What -- STS-128, What --...
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/d ryden/multimedia/imagegallery/STS-128/ED09-0266-09.html
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ECN-20325 This photo shows NASA's F-14 (NASA tail number 991; Navy serial number 157991) flying over Rogers Dry Lake, accompanied by a Navy F-14. NASA 991 was the research aircraft in a joint NASA/Navy program between 1979 and 1985. This looked at ways of improving the F-14's handling at high angles of attack, increasing spin resistance, reducing ''wing rocking'' (i.e. tilting from side to side), and improving aircraft recovery when it departed from controlled flight (e.g., entered a spin). A...
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/multimedia/imagegallery/F-14/ECN-20325.html
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E-1433In 1954 this photo of two swept wing airplanes was taken on the ramp of NACA High-Speed Flight Research Station. The Douglas D-558-ll is a research aircraft while the Boeing B-47A Stratojet is a production bomber and very different in size. Both contributed to the studies for swept back wing research. October 26, 1954 NASA Photo
Topic: Where -- Douglas
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/multimedia/imagegallery/Fleet-1950s/E-1433.html
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EC04-0327-39 Shadowed by two F/A-18s, NASA Dryden's venerable NB-52B is saluted by employees as it makes its final flyover after the last X-43A launch in November 2004. November 16, 2004 NASA Photo / Tom Tschida B-52 Project Description
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/multimedia/imagegallery/B-52/EC04-0327-39.html
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EC87-0014-8 The Michelob Light Eagle is seen here in flight over Rogers Dry Lake at the NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California. The Light Eagle and Daedalus human powered aircraft were testbeds for flight research conducted at Dryden between January 1987 and March 1988. These unique aircraft were designed and constructed by a group of students, professors, and alumni of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology within the context of the Daedalus project. The construction of the...
Topics: Where -- California, Where -- Massachusetts, Where -- Mediterranean Sea
Source: http://www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/multimedia/imagegallery/Daedalus/EC87-0014-8.html
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